It is much employed for making many metallic solutions; and in combination with nitric acid, it forms the aqua regia of the alchemists, so called from its property of dissolving gold.
It appears, therefore, that aqua regia owes its peculiar properties to the mutual decomposition of the nitric and muriatic acids; and that water, chlorine, and nitrous acid gas are the results of that reaction.
Dissolve four shillings' worth of gold in aqua regia with a gentle heat.
Aqua regia does not, strictly speaking, oxidize gold and platinum; it causes merely their combination with chlorine.
Vitalis says, that his solution of tin is prepared with two ounces of tin and a pound of aqua regia made with two parts of nitric acid at 24 deg.
To give stoneware the steel colour with platina, this metal must be dissolved in an aqua regia composed of 2 parts of muriatic acid, and 1 part of nitric.
The Pontifex Maximus however was supposed to live in the Regiadown in the Forum, where Julius Caesar as Pontifex Maximus had actually lived.
This Augustus did not desire to do, hence he gracefully gave up the Regia to the Vestal virgins and made his official residence in his own house on the Palatine, fulfilling the religious requirements by consecrating a part of that house.
There could be but one place for it, and that was in the Forum near the Regiawhere his body had been carried to be burned.
The next species is the Paradisea regia of Linnaeus, or Ding Bird of Paradise, which differs so much from the three preceding species as to deserve a distinct generic name, and it has accordingly been called Cicinnurus regius.
The details are briefly as follows:- One hundred grams of platinum are dissolved in aqua regiaand the solution is dried on the sand bath, without, however, producing decomposition.
If the greasiness is only slight, then simply shaking with hot aqua regia will often remove it, and the aqua regia is conveniently heated in this case by the addition of a little strong sulphuric acid.
And besides she would have a dainty picture drawn, in perpetual remembrance, a virgin riding upon an ass's back with this motto, Asino vectore regia virgo fugiens captivitatem; why said she all this?
He assures us that this aquaregia would dissolve likewise sulphur and silver.
He could form aqua regia by adding sal ammoniac or common salt to nitric acid, and he was aware of the property which it had of dissolving gold.
He knew that oxides of copper gave a green colour to glass; that Hungarian silver contained gold; that gold is precipitated from aqua regia by mercury, in the state of an amalgam.
He was in the habit also of dissolving sal ammoniac in this nitric acid, and employing the solution, which was the aquaregia of the old chemists, to dissolve gold.
Gilbert conjectured, have originally taken place in theRegia (Gesch.
The expression crinibus demissis is found in a lexregia (Festus, s.
The performance on the Palatine was now over, and the procession streamed down the hill to join the Via Sacra near the Regia and the Vesta temple, and so to make its way up to the Capitol, where the performance was repeated.
The first chapter of Ambrosch's Studien und Andeutungen, in which the nature and history of the Regia was first really investigated, is still valuable.
The passage which seems to us most decisive, is that which points to the royal extraction and name of this holy bishop: "Regia progenies, alto de sanguine Machar".
Plain then is it that in no other house could the "regia progenies" be verified more fully than in the M'Carthy family.
He fell through a thin screen of vines and splashed half onto a small Regia leaf.
But it will have nothing to say of the marvels of the slow decay of a Victoria Regia leaf, or of the spiral descent of a white egret, or of the feelings which Roosevelt and I shared one evening, when four manatees rose beneath us.
The Victoria Regia has one thing in common with a volcano--no amount of description or of colored plates prepares one for the plant itself.
On the title-page there appears for the first time the elaborate border with the Arma Regia (the sign of the house in which Siberch lived) at the foot.
IV The fourth book, Archbishop Baldwin's Sermo de altaris sacramento (1521), contains for the first time a woodcut initial and the Arma Regia in another form.
We are encouraged too by such experiences as has come to us in the crossing of regia with allied species.
Discussion 102 Is There a Future for Juglans Regia and Hicoria Pecan in New York and New England?
De Candolle named the valuable walnut that has been sent out by the Yokohama Nursery Company Juglans regia sinensis.
This nut had been previously named by De Candolle, Juglans regia sinensis.
So there is a Juglans mandshurica and a Juglans regia sinensis, respectively.
On the wall above is the bronze table on which is engraved a portion of the Lex Regiaconferring the imperial power on Vespasian, and from which Rienzi demonstrated to the people their political rights.
We see the tawny Tiber, its waves violently forced back from the Tuscan shore, proceed to demolish the monumental Regia (Numae) and the Temple of Vesta.
Maria Liberatrice, on our right, occupies the site of THE REGIA NUMAE.
The body was burnt and buried "in the Forum in that place visible from the old monumentalRegia of the Romans.
Augustus presented the Regia to the Vestal Virgins, because it adjoined their residence" (Dion Cassius, lxv.
By the Temple of Vesta was the Regia of Numa Pompilius, but near to the Atrium of Vesta, which was distinct from the temple.
Ovid says the house of Numa, the Regia, was "small," showing that the house of Caesar and the Regiawere two distinct edifices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
